Apparatus for and method of cutting separator plates



May 8, 1923.

M. S. SARGENT APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF CUTTING SEPARATOR PLATES Filed A1121. 2, 1921 mljfbc INVEN TOR.

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MERLE S. SARGENT, F ASHTABULA, OHIO. APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF CUTTING SEPARATO R PLAT ES. Application filed August 2, 1921. Serial No. 489,231.

To aZZwfiomitmay concern: pressure. It 'will be noted that the off-set Be it known that I, MERLE S. SARGENT, of the lever at 8 brings the operating a citizen of the United States, residing at handle away from the path of the saw 14 Ashtabula, in the county of Ashtabula andv so that the operator may conveniently ep- 5 State 01" Ohio, have invented new and use crate the saw without interference from ful Improvements in Apparatus for and the lever. Methods of Cutting Separator Plates, of The back-edge of the saw has a stiffenwhich the following is a specification. ing rib or plate 15 common to saws ofthis 5 Some storage batteries are provided with type and is provided with pointed teeth 16,

separator plates formed of wood and these these teeth being bevelled on the faces 1 to after they are shaped are usually kept in form a knife-edge, these knife-edges being a moist condition to preserve the plates. in alinement. The face 18 of the clamping The cutting of these plates has presented block l operates as a guide for the saw. The 60 some difliculty and the present invention saw having the bevelled knife-edgeoperates is designed for cutting such plates and simialong this face without injury to the saw.- lar materials more rapidly and evenly than Such a blade ozerates perfectly on thethin has been previously accomplished. separator plates. In order, howeveigto make The apparatus is illustrated in the 2.0- the cut of these plates at right angles'to companying drawings as follows the table it is desirable to incline the saw 0 Fig. 1 shows a plan view of a cutter. blades and consequently the guide face 18 Fig. 2 an end elevation. I is inclined to the perpendicular so as to Fig. 3 a section of the saw blade. compensate for the tendency of the saw to Fig. 4 an end view of the clamp showing out with an inolination'away from the guide 70 the guide face for the saw. face. i

1 marks the table, 2 a guide back on the What I claim as new is table, 3 a plurality of superposed separator 1. In a separator plate cutter, the complates arranged on the table, 1 a clam bination of a table; a guide back; a clan'xp block, and 5 a clamping lever, the clamping above the table, said clamp having a guide lever being pivoted at 6 on a bracket '2 face; and a saw formed with a sharpened secured to the back 2. The lever hasan edge produced by bevelling at least one ofi-set 8 from which extends a pin 9, the side of the blade as a whole, said edge bepin 9 operating over a series of openings ing intersected by triangular notches lea-v- 11 in a resilient latch plate 10 extending ing closely spaced sharp pointed teeth with 80 I upwardly from the table. The clamping knife-edge points acting on said guide face block has a guide tongue 12 (see dotted asaguide. f lines Fig. 1) operating in a groove in the 2. The method of cutting separator plates back 2 and a pin 13 extends through the which consists infclainping a plurality'ot block into the table guiding the opposite superposed plates and severing the plates 35 end of the block. successively with a cutter blade having a 40 The plates are placed on the table as sharpened edge producedby bevelling at shown, the clamping block over the top least one side of the bladeas a whole. said of the plates, the lever pressed down so edge being intersected by triangular notches as to clamp the plates in position and the ly spaced sharp-pointed teeth. 90 lever locked in position by the catch 13. I .uu... v whereof, I have hereunto set pin & extends up from the block l through my hand.

the lever 5 and a spring 5 is preferably provided so as to give the block a spring MERLE S. SARG-ENT. 

